Another classic takedown of Fox News at the hands of Jon Stewart and Aasif Mandvi: The clip of Glenn Beck joking about the Ganges River is astonishing.
The Madness of Fox News
Read more
Author - Bob Cesca
New Huffington Post Column
The Twisted and Dangerous Republican Record on Terrorism Enjoy, Twitter and Digg often!
Super Stupid
First of all, why the hell is Peter King all over television? Has he rented the books/library backdrop by the month or something? Also, this is remarkably dumb. From this morning's Good Morning...
Obama Can't Make North Dakota More Liberal
The retirement of Byron Dorgan is a solid example of why, in many cases, legislation is at the mercy of conservative-leaning states, and nothing the president can- or should do will change it. With...
Morning Awesome
Flight of the Conchords - "Ladies of the World"
Heckuva Job, Bushies
I'm watching Rachel Maddow as she runs through clips of various wingnuts like Peter King and Jim DeMint blasting the Obama administration for not adequately using the words "war on terror." She also...
Debunking Drudge's 'Record Lows' Meme
Contrary to what you're seeing on Drudge or hearing on the radio, just because there are record low temperatures doesn't mean that the climate crisis doesn't exist. Here's a nifty chart from the...
They're Just Making Up Shit
If anyone still needs convincing that the wingnuts and teabaggers were simply making loud noises without any substance or logic, this from radio wingnut Neal Boortz should put any doubts to rest:...
Polls Don't Support a 'Liberal Backlash'
I'm not sure if the polling is inaccurate or if the liberal blogosphere is way off the mark, but according to Gallup and this analysis by Mark Blumenthal, there isn't any statistical evidence to back...
Quote of the Day
"In 2008 the country clearly craved new leadership that would sweep into the capital and change the ways of Washington. But politically and personally, the First Couple and their top aides have shown...
Conspiracy and the Underpants Bomber
Last night, Keith, Richard Wolffe and Arianna Huffington discussed the possibility that the failure to communicate details of the Underpants Bomber before it happened might have been intentional. In...
Change We Can Believe In
Labor Secretary Hilda Solis is kicking serious ass: Her aggressive moves to boost enforcement and crack down on businesses that violate workplace safety rules have sent employers scrambling to make...
Morning Awesome
Clash of the Titans - Official Trailer I can't decide which is more awesome. Neeson as Zeus or that goddamn Kraken.
Hardball Win
Matthews went after Jonathan Martin from the Politico about their flagrant Cheney PR operation: Credit where credit is due. Nicely done, Matthews.
Uh-huh. This Is Really Safe.
I grabbed this from Drudge: This is what happens with increased security measures at the airport. I can't possibly imagine anything going wrong with large crowds of angry travelers packed into a...
Why Does George H.W. Bush Hate America?
It turns out that the first Bush administration wanted to prosecute the Lockerbie terrorists in the American court system. Wikipedia reminds us about Pan Am Flight 103: All 243 passengers and 16 crew...
Burger With Everything — and Ammonia
The New York Times reports: Eight years ago, federal officials were struggling to remove potentially deadly E. coli from hamburgers when an entrepreneurial company from South Dakota came up with a...
Attention Wingnuts: New Ultra-safe Airline Idea
An industrious wingnut should invest in a new airline. Call it AIRTIGHT SECURITY AIRLINES: Fly the Cowardly Skies. A commuter airline that goes above and beyond standard security measures -- catering...
Cowards Discuss Profiling Black Males
Brian Kilmeade agrees with General McInerney that we should be profiling "20-30 Islamic males." Again, I ask: How do you know they're Islamic? You don't. So you judge based on appearance. Therefore...
Why So Terrified?
Nate Silver takes another reality-based look at airborne terrorism: Nate also determines that the 1990s were equally as safe as the 2000s. Sorry, Bushies. But even if you added ground-based deaths...